That’s the thing with Forest Grove. One wrong move and it’s like you’re dead to the residents here.
-- Daphne (Chapter 2)

Importance: As Daphne and Melissa discuss the situation with Jacob, Daphne admits that the residents’ need to control its members is one of its failings. In this example, she indicates that if a person does not conform to the behavior expected by the people of Forest Grove, they will be ostracized from that community.

And that was why, in that moment, she knew they were lying.
-- Narrator (Chapter 3)

Importance: Melissa believed that she knew her children better than most people did. When she observed the way they behaved regarding their injured father, she believed that there was something they were lying about.

It’s something you get used to, hiding the bad stuff.
-- Narrator - Lilly (Chapter 5)

Importance: The first-person narrator, whom the reader learns at the end of the novel is Lilly, admits in her narration that...